Monday, January 16, 2006

The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

It's coming up on 100 years since a tremendous earthquake shook San Francisco and unleashed days of fires, and The Bancroft Library has busily been gathering photos and other memorabilia from all over the country in preparation. The results can be found here.

Along with digitizing images, they've also led us step by step through the disaster, telling us why so many buildings fell during the earthquake, and what measures were taken to try to stop the fire. These included dynamiting untouched building to create a firebreak, which didn't work out nearly as well as they'd hoped, considering they also blew up gas mains in the process. Oops!

Check this website out, it's an interesting place to spend a little time.

Did you come here looking for JEN?

Like most every girl baby born in the 70s, my name is Jennifer. I'm a total sci-fi geek, homeschooling mother of four (two singletons and twins), who's been married to Davin for 15 years now.

I don't know how Jesus puts up with me, but He does, and I'm grateful. I just keep trying to do the whole "as I have loved you, that you also love one another" thing even though I really suck at it sometimes. But, wow, wouldn't everything be so much better if we all lived this?

This blog is mostly just stuff that is funny or interesting to me, sometimes it's even about my kids...but not usually. ;-)